![]() ![]() He stopped at “Al Green Gets Next to You,” and turned to its track listing, ran a finger down to “I’m a Ram.” He said, “I remember seeing if there was something off this record that Mavis (Staples) would want to do when I worked with her. You picture yourself alongside Dylan and Tweedy, each with their own respective jukeboxes - neither containing any of their songs - and just. But Bob Dylan’s weird and entertaining “The Philosophy of Modern Song” from last year and Tweedy’s just-released “World Within a Song” serve as kind of delicious hangouts. Some of these books - Paul McCartney’s “The Lyrics,” with some 160 songs, mostly written with John Lennon, and Bono’s “Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story,” using the U2 catalog as writing prompts for self-reflection - stick to their authors’ own music. We walked down into the concrete bunker of a green room beneath the Athenaeum Center, a few hours before Tweedy began a short tour for his new book, “World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music.” The book is a funny, generous installment of a pretty smart trend in music autobiographies: Rather than recall a life from birth to success, individual songs serve as entry points into the personal history of performers. ![]() “‘High concept,’” Tweedy said, suddenly at my side, staring at the record bin. ![]()
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